While the Luftwaffe bombed London and its citizens fled underground, a killer emerged from the shadows to satisfy his inner darkness . . .
In February 1942, a woman was found strangled in a London air aid shelter. Chief Superintendent Frederic Cherrill, head of Scotland Yard’s revolutionary fingerprint division, knew just how well the wartime blackouts concealed crime. But this was a brutal, senseless killing with few clues, no apparent—and no sign of the terror to come.
He seemed so decent, cheerful, normal . . .
The nightly air raids had darkened London’s neon dazzle but not its urge to live it up. With death a daily possibility, drinks and sex were everywhere. But one man had other urges. Over a five-day period, he murdered with a lightning-fast ferocity that stunned and baffled investigators. Dubbed the “Blackout Ripper,” he left few clues in his bloody wake—until a slipup revealed his true identity, and shocked a city that thought it had seen it all.
Although the paperback is currently out of print in the U.S., the title is available on the Amazon Kindle. In 2008, British publisher JR Book published the book in hardcover as The Blackout Murders, which is available on Amazon.co.uk.
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